"If it isn't a difference in strength, then tell me what's going on with me." Xiao Yan frowned despite himself. The enhancement from the Azure Heaven Dragon-Transformation Art affected his Unending Void Demon Body. Besides, the dragon skeleton he had found this time was no third-rate specimen-it belonged to an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign. The enhancement should surely have been even greater.
According to his original plan, if he successfully fused with Long Nixian's dragon skeleton, his physical strength would increase at least a hundredfold. Once he broke through to Earth Supreme, his body might even rival a Heavenly Sovereign's in toughness. Yet, to his surprise, he had stalled at this most crucial step.
"Judging by the situation, Lord Flame Emperor, perhaps you already have a dragon skeleton within your body, causing a rejection?" The Ancestral Stone Spirit pondered for a moment before continuing, "But logically, even if there is a rejection, it should be the higher-grade one rejecting the lower-grade one. Could the dragon skeleton inside you be of an even higher grade than a Heavenly Sovereign's?"
"What dragon skeleton could I possibly have inside me..." Xiao Yan was about to object when he suddenly froze. He remembered that when he first obtained the Demon Sword, the Four Fiends Spirits had indeed guarded its four sides in the form of skeletons. Later, all four skeletons had shattered. Could it be that they had not shattered at all, but instead fused with him?
But his body had not seemed to grow outrageously stronger back then. That hardly matched the Ancestral Stone Spirit's description of something beyond the Heavenly Sovereign level.
With that question in mind, Xiao Yan took a deep breath, immediately sat cross-legged, and sank his consciousness into his Soul World. At the center of his Soul Sea, the